The almost universally dreadful results of the 30 year history of game to movie adaptations, particularly where Hollywood is involved, are highlighted here by Japanese movie fans in this unsurprisingly abysmal ranking.

One thing I really didnt like about that Chun-Li movie and this is more about common sense, the star wasnt even asian! Micheal Clarke Duncan however was the best possible choice for Balrog/Bison. Though in all honesty I wish they would decide on a permanant choice for Vega/Balrog’s hair color.

I don’t care what they say; when I saw SMB in the theater on opening night, my 12-year-old self thought it was damn cool. Later viewings understandably dulled that impression, but it’ll still have a place in my heart.

Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, and Mario Bros movies were not that bad. They are only bad when compared to the games because they don’t follow the story/characters. Outside of the game, the movies were entertaining tho average at best.

And… in all honesty, the Resident Evil movies don’t suck… Sure, they’re quite over-the-top and contain bad acting, but the action is sick and it’s like an alternate Resident Evil world… It’s so annoying how people say, “It doesn’t follow the games durrhurr…” Well, no shit, ya fuck. It’s the movie. If you want the story that’s contained inside the game, just play the goddamn game.

Even if the Super Mario movie is hella whack in many ways, I still enjoyed it as a child… It has its high moments (if few) and its low moments (which are plentiful). Still, it’s bad, but as a child it was hella entertaining ;D Just wanted to say that ^-^

I wouldn’t call the making of these movies “unbelievable”. I mean they’re all good material for a movie, no matter what inaccuracies may come of it. Now if they DID make a movie about Pong and Tetris…THAT would be unbelievable, I mean there aren’t any humans in those games or any potential carbon-based lifeform that could be used.

The people who voted on this list must’ve been high on crack or something, because the Resident Evil movies were good. Milla needed to bring the heat and the sexy for her role, and she accomplished both in spades.

They did a good thing of showing the PoV of an original character whose story takes place at the same times as the original games. You see some of the cast of the games pop in here and there as they’re going about their stories, plenty of nods and references to the games (the point of the movies in the first place, really), but this story belongs to Milla’s character, and how the overall events affected her. Since she’s The Hero of Another Story, what happened to her can go somewhat beyond what happened in the games, and not have it directly influence the characters that were in the games.

man think comments always get deleted. Mario bros was nothin like the game but I still enjoyed it as a kid and then saw it again wiser and it actually was pretty interesting but had absolutely nothing to do with the game ahah shouldnt of even be called a mario game (slightest of similar bits) was complete its own thing so get why it number one.

First Mortal Kombat was pretty awesome next one has no negative words to describe it because it was that bad. The resident evil films are really bad man but they still successful which is hilarious.

Resident Evil was the one I was excited about in the 90’s, when I saw on PSM it was being made I couldn’t wait, finally when released I wanted to beat the living shit out of Paul W.S. Anderson for ruining the greatest survival horror game in history. Thank God he isn’t directing Castlevania anymore.

ALL these films were bad as adaptations of their source material, that’s just something is is up for debate. Now where the films themselves were entertaining is a category all on it’s own. Street fighter for what it was was good in that regard while the later film legend of chun li was was horrid. The film was so bad me and some friends actually filmed ourselves making fun of the flick at the theaters. the only movie to this day that was both faith to it’s source material to a degree as well as entertaining was the first Mortal Kombat. It’s only fault: PG-13.

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All of those movies were fail (tomb raider I never really played so whatever) but surprised king of fighter isn’t there…

Tomb Raider and Resident Evil were at least serviceable, and they were successes unlike the rest of these movies. I suppose the wording of the poll isn’t “the worst” but “the least believable”–after all, do you see any Uwe Boll movies here? Their absence automatically invalidates this poll as a list of the worst video game movies.

Mario brothers is good in a “so bad it’s good” kind of way, but most of these are just “bad” at any rate.

I actually liked Tomb Raider (the movie) more than the games. In the movie, you could ogle a version of Lara that didn’t look like bad origami, and you didn’t have to wrestle with frustrating controls.

I love the Resident Evil movies. People complained that they weren’t anything like the games, but that’s the reason why I love them. I don’t want to see a movie where the characters spend 45 minutes looking for gems that fit into the eye sockets of a statue that opens a secret door in the wall containing a lever that’s used to turn a crank to open a door that leads to a sewer where a buried key will unlock a door to the back yard.

The problem was not the slow pace, they could’ve done fine without the puzzles as in… you know, just using the doors without unlocking them or knocking down the keyless ones. Problem was that the characters and story line were hardly true to the game, besides zombies, Raccoon City, Umbrella Corp and Cerberus in the first movie what else was familiar to you in the story line? Nothing, and that’s the problem.

With this current title it sounds like these games would not make good movies, and it would ask the question, “why would they try?” The thing is, some these have good stories, and could have been good movies. Hell, some of them have been adapted into good anime.

I actually liked Super Mario Bros. Live Action. I consider it a darker version of the Mario World. I think it also came out around the same time Cool World came out. Ah those were the days before they **** things up.

Once upon a time, movies were made from novels & original stories. But the lazy bums in the movie industry in the last 20 years. Were simply dweebs with all the right connections.
So is it any surprise that a lot of these adaptations failed?

all the movie in this list sucks.. that’s why i hate games turn in Hollywood movies. especially fighting games. like street figther, legend of chunli, dead or alive , tekken, and king of fighthers. all of this moveis sucks.

for me there are 2 important things to make a great game movie.

1) Character backgrounds- it includes the personality,costume,and personal backround based on the game

No Uwe Boll Movies? Shame. House of the Dead literally takes place inside of a two story house and I don’t remember, but did it have something to do with pirates trying to find immortality? Super Mario may not have been accurate, but I found it a fun movie. Street Fighter could have did without the game of the movie. And compared to the rest of the list, Higurashi wasn’t that bad. I’m actually trying to find it subbed somewhere to watch, aside from Youtube.

when i saw it i was so happy they made a mario movie. in a recent game informer they trashed the mario movie. if they tried to remake it now, it would be the definition of bad. the old one i thought was cool,because it had some similarities, but it was it’s own thing. seems like critics are the only ones that don’t like it, every one on here for the most part seems to like it, as do my friends.

Yeah, I noticed that Mortal Kombat didn’t make the rankings. Granted, the 1st one wasn’t a total failure, but the second one shot itself in the foot. XD Dead or Alive’s nowhere to be seen either, it’s not like the premise is any different from Tekken.

Shit, I like that movie. Sure it didn’t exactly follow the plot of any of the games, except for the fact that they had to go save a princess from bowser, inside his fortress, full of (admittedly 8 foot tall) goombas, bob ombs and other things. The movie was fun, crazy, and actually had a lot of things in it if you are paying attention, like snifits. How many of you knew that they actually had snifits in that movie?

Anyone who’s played super mario RPG? They come from the same class of stuff, and since they ARE wearing snifit masks in the movie, maybe thats why. Garbage truck scene. Anyway since you are an anon tard I won’t give you any more of my time. Retard.

Mortal Kombat was a fairly good movie, IMO. It had a nice combination of action and comedy (Jonny Cage was hilarious from time to time) and I thought it stayed close to the original atmosphere of the original game. And you didn’t have to be a fan of the games to like it.

Compare that to MK 2, which was a trainwreck from start to finish. Too many characters, a lot of bad actors and a story that only hardcore fans of the games would understand.

The fact that there was no Sion, and their failure in having actual kids playing as Rika and Satoko (let’s be honest, Ono Erena may be considered as a pseudo-loli idol but she definitely doesn’t fit as Satoko at all) despite having some children actors in the school while the five mains were the only teenagers there completely conclude the movie(s) as one package of inferiorities.

The only part that I can give them some credits is their success in making me cringe during the needle in the lunchbox scene; instead of just having Keichi spitting it off instantly like the anime, they actually give a close-up shot of the needle puncturing out through his cheeks..

It isn’t. The anime was already significantly worse than the VN, but the movie takes it even a step further. There is no suspense whatsoever. I dropped it after the extremely unconvincing first ‘Uso da!’ from Rena. She sounded like she was reading it from a script rather than shouting it at Keiichi, and for some inexplicable reason those two seconds were repeated three times from different angles. Trust me, it sucks.

The real criteria in Hollywood is “Can we palm this shit off on the fans and make a ton of cash irregardless of the fact that it, in no way, shape or form resembles the the original concept of the game”.

“For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.”

Street Fighter was reasonably decent with regards to the entertainment factor. They simply dialed it all to 11, knowing that you just can’t do this sort of thing “realistically” in a live action movie.

That and the whole too big of a cast to squeeze into a movie issue, and all things considered it could’ve been far worse.

Tomb Raider 1, doesn’t really belong on that list either. Again, reasonably entertaining, special effects were just about right for a flick belonging to this genre (think Indiana Jones essentially), and the camera work and choreography was pretty decent as well.

The aforementioned Double Dragon, DoA, KoF or even the latter MK movies, or basically anything done by Uwe Boll is far more worthy of this list.

And on a side note, regarding the Mario movie, Bob Hoskins absolutely loathes the movie. It’s the one movie he’d unmake out of everything he’s ever done, if he had the possibility of removing it from existence.

Yeah, Raul Julia’s Bison was the best ever. He let his grandkids pick his final role, because he knew he only had one more left in him before he was done. Legend of Chun-Li was absolute shite, because it starred “that hot chick from Smallville. Who looks kind of Asian. Or maybe Eskimo…” Fuck you and your agent, Kristin Kreuk. =P

Street Fighter movie was good because it was so shameless that it could only be taken in as all action no brains movie. It is much better than corny shit like Saving private Ryan that tries to be serious with all the fucking recycled cliches. The movie almost made me a Nazi symphatiser.

Dragonball Evolution wasn’t actually that horrible though compared to some of the ones in this list. Just about as deep as a puddle. Compared to what it could have been, it was actually somewhere amusing, but it was something for like… 8-year-olds I’d say. The type of thing that they’d watch and go ‘that was so cool!’ and years later come back to it going ‘what the fuck was I thinking…?’

The one that confuses me though is Onechanbara became a movie!? I was one of the friggan testers on that game…

Don’t hate me for saying this but the movie was bad. I loved the whole Energy Potion and Special Moves effects but they threw in too many pointless side-plots that did nothing for the movie. If we got rid of those and focused more on the main plot then I may have had a better opinion of the movie.

For their time some of these movies were pretty decent. But most of us just look back at it now and take em as joke.
Mostly saying this because sankaku makes it seem like their ranking system is just taking one site and posting something random when they could be taking time to post something important.
But that’s just me, don’t take it to heart.

Pff. She was great in the 5th element and Joan of Arc. I guess someone’s upset that the films were rubbish and doesn’t want to blame Capcom’s original writers.

That Resident Evil’s plot is so ridiculous it can’t be adapted into film is not her fault. No female actress who ever lived could work with lousy dialogy, 2 dimensional villains, and more slow motion than Baywatch into anything special…

Hollywood being as it is, and with other counties’ entertainment industries trying to copy them, I am not surprised at all. What would surprise me is if more of these movies were actually any good and were actually based accurately on the subject matter. “Space Pilgrims” in Wing Commander my ass! Although any excuse to see Milla on the big screen is okay by me.

Amazingly bad. The movies really suffer from the SI-my-girlfriend-has-to-be-in-this-part choice of the director. Making Alice superhuman kills the drama of the games, where death’s around every corner, you’ve got limited ammo, etc. The tense camerawork and framing of the games isn’t in the movies either. And replacing the composer was a bad idea as well.

Seriously, take the latest one for example; she has dozens of her clones (who takes all the risk of her dying) attacking the Umbrella HQ and then she survived a FUCKING PLANE CRASH. Honestly, that just makes everything so possible and predictable. There were hardly any elements of survival (save those people who died randomly in the middle of the movie) and the “Am I going to die? Am I going to die?” feel you always get while playing the games.

Honestly to say, they took all the Thriller theme out of this series and just turn it into a typical The Matrix-wannabe action movie. It just makes ZombieLand looks like an actual horror and eligible zombie film.

You know they’re planning a “Monopoly” movie, too? That’s gonna be awful. If they made it into a game show, it would probably be better. I mean, NBC used to have “Scrabble” with Chuck Woolery and it was pretty cool.

Anyway, most of these movies belong on Rifftrax. I could imagine Mike watching Street Fighter and when they see Guile, he’ll quip “We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese.”